A few days ago a friend sent me a URL in an e-mail. It failed when I
left clicked on it. When I right clicked on it in Evolution, selected
"Copy Link Location", and pasted it into Firefox, it failed again. When
I replied back to my friend, he said something about extraneous
characters in my quoted reply. After a few exchanges that were
reminiscent of "Who's On First", I figured out what he was talking
about.

When Evolution receives a URL in an message body containing the "&"
ampersand character, it displays that URL correctly and underlined.
However, when you use it as a link there's an error. If you copy and
paste it into an editor, the error becomes visible:

Evolution display:  http://xxxxxxxxxx&xxxxx
URL behind display: http:///xxxxxxxxx&xxxxx

Is this insertion of an "amp;" string following an ampersand character
the bug I think it is?

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL

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